Juliana G. Araújo‡, Whandenson M. Nascimento §, Carlos A. M. Martins‡, Paulo H.P. Nobre‡, Allysson P. Pinheiro‡Corresponding author: Juliana G. Araújo ( araujo31goncalves@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Murilo Zanetti Marochi © Juliana G. Araújo, Whandenson M. Nascimento , Carlos A. M. Martins, Paulo H.P. Nobre, Allysson P. Pinheiro. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Araújo JG, Nascimento WM, Martins CAM, Nobre PHP, Pinheiro AP (2022) An observational record of Kingsleya attenboroughi Pinheiro & Santana, 2016 (Decapoda, Pseudothelphusidae), an endemic species from the Chapada do Araripe, southern Ceará, Brazil. Check List 18(2): 363-367. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.2.363 |  |
We observed the occurrence of the pseudothelphusid freshwater crab Kingsleya attenboroughi Pinheiro & Santana, 2016 in an unexplored stream on the northern slopes of the Chapada do Araripe, Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. A female specimen of K. attenboroughi was found in a small pool of Gameleira stream, district of Missão Nova, municipality of Missão Velha, in the southern part of the state. The new occurrence record extends the geographic distribution of K. attenboroughi by 7 km beyond the Sítio Cocos, its easternmost previously known occurrence; this expands the geographic range of this species to the southeast and indicates that its real distribution is still poorly known.